Safety dispenser for coiled guyline wire



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United States Patent 3,107,880 SAFETY DISPENSER FOR COILED GUYLINE WIRE Donald E. Lawlis, Box 531, Buckley, Wash. Filed Feb. 16, 1961, Ser. No. 89,691. 1 Claim. (Cl. 242--l29) This invention relates to containers or packages for coiled wire and has reference more particularly to what will herein be designated a cage or safety container for a coil of wire such as that employed for the making of guylines; for use in the installation of electric l ght, telephone or telegraph lines; in cable logging operations and for various other uses.

Explanatory to this invention it will here be noted that wires or cables of the kind for which the present cage or container is made, are usually coiled and the coils individually packaged after being secured by cord or wire bands that necessarily must be released for the drawing off or the wire from the coils. Such wires may have diameters ranging from A" to /2" and as a general rule are quite stiff and resilient and because of its resiliency, it is difficult to retain in coiled condition when Once the coil securing ties are removed. I

It is the principal object of this invention to provide a coil enclosing cage of novel forrnation whereby a co l of wire can be retained in coiled condition as the wire is drawn progressively therefrom without necessitating removal of the coil from the cage and without requiring any opening 'or release of the cage.

Another object of the invention is to form a novel form of cage, from a single, continuous length of wire.

Further objects and advantages of the invention reside in the details 'of construction of the coil enclosing cage; and in its manner of use, as will hereinafter be fully de scribed.

In accomplishing the above mentioned and other objects of the invention, I have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a coil of wire as applied and retained Within a cage or safety dispensing container embodying the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a top view, showing the placing of a coil of wire on an open cage preparatory to its being enclosed therein.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a jig on which a cage may be formed, and showing a length of cage forming wire as applied thereto in the first steps of forming a cage from said wire.

FIG. 4 is a view similar to that of FIG. 3, showing the step that follows that of FIG. 3 in the cage making operation.

FIG. 5 is a detail, illustrating the twisting together of certain parts of wires in the operation of forming the present cage.

Referring more in detail to the drawings:

In the making of coil retaining cages of the present kind, I employ a relatively light gauge wire that is quite pliable and with little or no resilience. Preferably the wire would be galvanized and from 16 to 20 gauge. However, the size or gauge of wire is usually determined in accordance with the requirements or conditions of use. It is practical after the size of the cage has been once determined, to coil the wire to be used for this purpose and to mount the coil on a reel for easy handling.

It is also most practical to provide a suitable jig on which to form the cages. However, such cages might be made by hand alone or by machine and in various ways without departing from the present invention.

Referring more in detail to FIGS. 3 and 4 in which I have illustrated the formation of a cage by use of a simple form of jig designated in its entirety by numeral 10. The jig is shown to comprise a flat, horizontally disposed base plate 12 in which eight short posts have been vertically fixed, equally spaced and in circular formation. Farther "out on the base at equal radial distances from the circular arrangement of posts and at 90 intervals of angular spacing about the circle of posts are posts about which the wire is drawn in the formation of what is herein designated as the wings of the cage, as will presently be explained.

Those posts which are arranged in circular formation are individually and successively designated by reference numerals 8a, Sb, 8c, 8d, 8e, 8 8g and 8h, in order in a clockwise direction about the circle. The outer posts, which are disposed at 90 in angular and arcuate spacing are designated by reference numerals 9a, 9b, 9c, and 9d reading successively clockwise directions about the circle of posts.

In FIG. 3, I have also shown a length of selected wire 15 to be formed in a coil 15x which is mounted on a reel 16 for easier drawing off of the Wire strand therefrom for the formation of the cage.

Assuming that the jig, as here shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, is to be used in making a cage of this invention, the operation would be as follows:

First, one end portion of the wire 15 is drawn from the reel and is looped about a post 13x, here shown to be fixed in and extending upwardly from the base plate 12 at a location outside the circle of posts and closely adjacent post 8a. The wire :15 is then drawn from post 13x about the circle of posts to form it into the octagonal wire ring designated at .17 in FIGS. 3 and 4. It is to be noted by reference to this figure that the wire strand l5 overlaps with its secured end portion between posts 8a and 812.

It is also to be observed by reference to FIG. 2, that before the cage is closed about the coil of wire, W, as placed therein as in FIG. 2, its four radially extending wings which in FIG. 2 have been individually designated by reference numerals 17a, 17b, 17c and 1701, all extended from wire ring 17, in the same horizontal plane of the wire ring.

The formation of these wing portions of the cage is carried out as follows: After the wire strand 15 has been wrapped once around the circular arrangement of posts to the extent shown in FIG. 3, thus providing the octagonal wire ring 17, it is then drawn about post 8b, as in FIG. 4, and extended across the ring, and in succession is drawn about the outsides of posts 8g, 9d, and thence back and about the outside of post 3 and across the ring 17 and about the inside of post 8c. This operation forms one wing portion of the cage, for example, it may be the wing portion 17a that is shown in FIG. 2 to extend radially outward from the ring 17, but which in FIG. 4, is formed diametrically across the wire ring 17.

The wire 15 is then drawn from post in clockwise direction along the wire ring 17 and about the outside of post 3d, thence across the ringto and in succession about the outsides of posts 8a, 9a and 8h and thence across the ring 17 to the inside of post 8e, thus to form the wing 17b, as has been shown in dash lines in FIG. 4. In like manner the wire 15 is drawn about the outside of post 8 and thence across the ring about the outside of posts 80, 9b and 3b and thence across the ring to the inside of post 8g to form wing 17c. Likewise wing 17d is formed by extending the wire about posts 8g, 8h and across the ring 17 across the outside of posts 8e, 9c, 8d and'back across ring 17 to post 13x, and in its finishing operation, that end of the wire 15 is joined with the starting end which was secured at the start to post 13x.

It will be understood by reference to FIG. 3 that alternate straight segments of the octagonal ring 17 overlap with certain parts of the wire 15 as it is applied to the posts of the jig in the formation of the wings. For example in FIG. 4, the wires will be overlapped between posts 3a and 8b; 8c and 8; and 3g and 811. These overlapped parts of the wire are then twisted together, as has been shown at 21) in FIG. 2, by use of any suitable twisting member such as that shown in FIG. 5 to be a fiat metal plate 21. After this twisting has been done, the cage, as thus formed is lifted from the jig lit) and the tour wings thereof as originally formed diametrically across the ring 17 are bent outwardly to the relationship shown in FIG. 2. A wire coil W to be retained in the cage is then centered on the wire cage formation, as in FIG. 2, and the four wings then folded inwardly and across the wire coil in such manner as to place their outer end portions,

designated by numeral 170 in FIG. 2, in overlapping relationship centrally of the coil and a suitable tool isthen applied through and used totwist these end portions together, as shown at 25 in FIG. 1.

It is to be understood that the eight sided wire rin-g17 is of lesser diameter than the cage contained coil W and therefore with the coil placed on the open cage as in FIG. 2 and the wing portions drawn across the coil and twisted together at their ends the coil W will be safely contained in the cage and the binding ties applied there- 25 about as at 30 in FIG. 2. can be cut and removed. Then one end portion of the wire that forms the caged coil W can be drawn out through the side opening provided by the ring 17 as has been shown at W in FIG. 1.

With the coil W so caged, the continuous Wire which forms its coil can be drawn otf without tangling and without permitting the coil to dangerously expand under the force of the resiliency of the wire in the coil.

quirements of coils W of-dilterent diameters without departing from the invention here disclosed.

What I claim is new:

A wire coil caging mat formed from a continuous strand of wire that has one end portion thereof bent into an octagonal band that defines a dispensing opening for one side of the cage, adapted for Withdrawal of wire from a caged coil therethrowgh and upon which annular band the coil to be caged, may be flatly and concentrically positioned in the operation of cagring it, and which strand of cage forming wire also formed into a succession of loops defining elongated flexible Wings radiating from alternate chords of the octagonal band; said wings being foldable over the outer periphery of a wire coil positioned thereon and drawn inwardly and joined at their ends to close that side of the cage; each of said wings having opposite side edge defining wires twisted at their inner ends about the intermediate chords of said octagonal band and converging to substantially pointed portions at their outer ends.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 467,722 Hendryx Jan. 1, 1892 469,941 Hendryx Mar. 1, 1892 2,251,188 Griflis July 29, 1941 2,579,131 Tinsley Dec. 18, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,073,719 France Mar. 24, 1954 

